Does settlement residency lapse and does Friday Prayer become obligatory when a person moves to a neighboring village or town? And what is the criterion for short travel that waives Friday Prayer?
A settler is one who resides in a country with the intention of not leaving it except out of necessity, unlike a non-settler resident who intends to return to his homeland. One who moves to another city with the intention of temporary residence remains a settler in his first city and a resident in the second. However, if his intention is permanent residence, he becomes a settler in the second city, and the description of settlement in the first city ceases to apply to him, even if the two cities are adjacent and not covered by a single name. The journey that exempts one from Friday prayer is one that covers a distance of four burud (approximately 83 km). There is no necessary correlation between the exemption from Friday prayer and non-settlement; for Friday prayer is obligatory for residents but cannot be established solely by them.
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